Re: any way to listen to url using command line?

[Jude DaShiell <jdashiel@shellworld.net>]

I don't know if what I managed to do was the best approach, but I used 
youtube-dl and downloaded that url and that saved a very large .flv 
file.  I tried using mplayer to play it and while the file played, I 
kept getting screen updates of a progress bar nature until I put vc=null 
and vo=null in my .mplayer/config file.  I am reading to find out to 
turn off mplayer's other complaints about lirc and maybe some other 
things so as to get the sound playing quickly mostly of the videos and 
not mplayer status messages.  The video was quite informative too.  I 
don't think it would be possible to have all of this streamed and run 
through .mailcap when a link were opened using the lynx browser at least 
not now.  That may eventually be possible and may be worth the time and 
effort to play with it and find out.

On Wed, 19 Oct 2011, Jochen Spieker wrote:

> Jude DaShiell:
> >
> > Do tools exist in debian to play the following url with a command line 
> > interface media player?
> > 
> > http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oJTwQvgfgMM
> 
> youtube-dl
> mplayer
> 
> J.
> 

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